Martin Rodbell
Martin Rodbell · Science & Medicine
Awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for the discovery of G-proteins in cellular signal transduction.
1925, Baltimore, Maryland, United States — 1998, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
United States (Baltimore · National Institutes of Health · North Carolina)
Martin Rodbell is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for the discovery of G-proteins in cellular signal transduction.
Born to a Jewish family in Baltimore, Rodbell was a biochemist at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. He discovered that G-proteins act as molecular signal transducers, using the energy carrier GTP to relay messages from receptors on the cell surface to the cell's interior — a 'second messenger' switching system central to how hormones act. With Alfred Gilman he shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for the discovery of G-proteins in cellular signal transduction.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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